I haven't played the Metal Gear games, but what I don't get is that if a metal gear can launch a nuke from anywhere, undetected, can't it go into international waters at the behest of a government, launch the nuke and the government can just deny involvement and essentially have free nukes?
It's all superfluous to begin with, the Shagohod outclassed it before the project was much more than an idea. It just flings the stealth nuke farther, simple and easy. The prequel games were written bizarrely because they kept escalating stakes in the past to be greater than they were in the future. The original focus of the series, the Metal Gear, is just a cumbersome deathtrap compared to what existed before it.
Wait, people actually take Kojimas "writing" seriously?
>>729062641Why did they give this nuke submarine legs again?
chatgpt:>Short answer: yes, that’s exactly the nightmare scenario Metal Gear is built around—but the series also explains why it isn’t quite that simple.
>>729062641mechs are cool, that's all and that's enough. the half-assed attempts at justifying them doctrinally in games always fell flat.
>>729062641Isn't the threat of the metal gear that it can fire the nukes from other countries, not that it can fire them without being detected specifically? Essentially you could instigate any conflict between parties that you want unimpeded.
>>729064543Isn't there literally mind control in this series? That's a way better way to do it without being detected than using a really tall tank that leaves a trail of broken trees and disturbed ground to make it obvious what happened. Grab a citizen of there, brainwash/simulationfuck their mind, give them the davy crockett, point them to the location and wish them goodbye.
